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...good girl, there were no cameras on," she says. "The minute I started arguing, there was a camera shooting me from every angle." She was vilified by viewers across the country. But she has since gone on to do Fear Factor and to play host to Style Network's Oscar coverage. "I was on track to become the biggest bore in history," she says. "Being on the show changed my path." Reality TV's Dr. Frankensteins have tremendous power indeed. And sometimes it pays to be the monster...
DIED. CHRIS PENN, 43, husky character actor, comedian and brother of Oscar winner Sean Penn; of unknown causes; in Santa Monica, Calif. Best known as Nice Guy Eddie, the gauche son of a crime boss in Reservoir Dogs, Penn played mostly supporting roles on both sides of the law--a cop in Starsky & Hutch and a convict in Rush Hour. His latest movie, The Darwin Awards, premiered last week at the Sundance Film Festival...
This March 5, Jon Stewart will step from behind The Daily Show desk onto the stage of the Kodak Theatre, becoming the first talk-show host to emcee the Oscars since David Letterman's career-braking stint in 1995. (He bombed with the "Oprah ... Uma" joke in his monologue and never quite recovered that night.) Stewart will also be credited or blamed for the size of the TV audience. Billy Crystal is the current ratings champ: his 2004 stint was the most-watched Oscar show since 2000, the last time he emceed...
...Societies that respect women will progress; the rest will degenerate. Krishna Raman Chennai, India Corliss says China is rich in top actresses and Japan isn't. But there are wonderful Japanese actresses in The Last Samurai (2003) and The Twilight Samurai (2002), and the latter was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Movie. Just because Chinese films are better marketed than those made in Japan doesn't mean Chinese actors are more talented. Kazuho Baba Anaheim, California, U.S. Memoirs Of A Geisha is most definitely not, as Corliss claimed, "a living work of art that entertains...
Berry, an Oscar-winning actress and star of the “X-Men” trilogy, will be presented with the campus theater group’s Pudding Pot on Feb. 16. Gere, who won a Golden Globe for his leading role in “Chicago,” will receive the Pot on Feb. 24. Established in 1951, the annual awards honor performers who have made a “lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment...